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  Civil War 2024

  ★★½ Watched 16 Sep 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Hit Man 2023

  ★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2024

  Cynically crafted to ride the home-streaming hype cycle: two hot leads, an "immediate attraction with a nihilistic edge" script which of course translates to a lighthearted romp despite the subject matter, plus a couple quippy sidekicks that are just there to say "damn they're hot" (one of whom has the perfect streaming generation star power of being from Parks and Rec)

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  Amélie 2001

  ★★★★ Added 2

  A cute reminder that modern suburban living no longer provides a much needed sense of community and that the individualistic secrecy of our lives coupled with an almost innate disdain for others are horrid trends that will continue to alienate us and foster cheap, convenient social bonds, often virtual, with people that we see our ideological or temperamental reflections in creating echo chambers that prevent legitimate personal growth and political dialogue as the forces of global capital exploit and actively…

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  Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008

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  A rare but catastrophic exception to the humanist ethos that should rightfully haunt us. Somber but so impossibly tender--a gentle kiss for the dead and those they leave behind. Also this is the only good true crime piece of media ever made, sorry. I just decided that. Everything else is soulless scoop chasing a la Nightcrawler

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